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Newsby StaffNovember 8, 2024

HDT Names Safety and Compliance Award Winner

Rich Kaczynski, loss prevention manager for A. Duie Pyle, is capping a 46-year trucking career with the 2024 HDT Safety & Compliance Award.

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Newsby StaffOctober 10, 2024

The Future of Trucking Fleets: Technology and Safety Come Together in San Diego

The latest insights into fleet technology and safety will come together November 6-8 in San Diego at the Fleet Forward & Fleet Safety Conference, including HDT's Safety & Compliance Award and panel discussion.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeNovember 10, 2023

HDT Honors Keller Trucking’s Sarah Cates with Safety & Compliance Award

Sarah Cates has been director of safety at Defiant, Ohio-based Keller Trucking for only three years, but her success in totally transforming the company’s safety culture was a key factor in Heavy Duty Trucking's editors honoring her with the 2023 Safety & Compliance Award.

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Newsby StaffNovember 7, 2023

HDT Names Safety & Compliance Award Finalists for 2023

Heavy Duty Trucking has named four finalists for its annual Safety & Compliance award, with the winner to be honored Friday, Nov. 10, at the Fleet Safety Conference in Santa Clara, California.

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Newsby Vesna BrajkovicDecember 8, 2022

Risk of Truck Driver Cell Phone Use

A Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study found that truck drivers using hand-held cell phones were more at risk of an unsafe event on the road than those using a hands-free device.

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Newsby Vesna BrajkovicDecember 5, 2022

Top 10 Risky Truck Driver Distractions

What type of tasks by commercial vehicle drivers leads to crashes and other critical safety incidents? The answer may surprise you.

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Newsby Vesna BrajkovicNovember 30, 2022

Effectiveness of In-Cab Coaching for Trucking Fleets

A Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study found that on-board monitoring systems and coaching after safety-critical events improves driver performance and safety.

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Newsby StaffNovember 17, 2020

Fleet Safety Experience Continues with Award-Winning Safety Program, New HOS Rules

The all-virtual Fleet Safety Experience, a counterpart of Fleet Safety Conference, will continue to bring you more medium- and heavy-duty-focused sessions this week, including a session on an award-winning fleet safety program and one on the ins and outs of the latest Hours of Service updates.

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Newsby StaffAugust 13, 2020

Fleet Safety Experience Brings Training Online

This all-new virtual counterpart of Fleet Safety Conference was designed for immediate fleet safety industry needs but built as a long-term solution.

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Articlesby Stephane BabcockFebruary 11, 2020

HDT Safety Winner Makes the Grade

In 2010, Kody Wantland answered an ad for a “safety specialist” for a local trucking company after returning to the U.S. after a deployment overseas. Less than a decade later, he won HDT's Safety and Compliance Award.

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